Queen Of Dreams Metaphors

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Divakaruni is a South Asian woman writer who deals with various cruel issues confront by women. She is one of the founder of Maitri, which is a free, secret, transfer non-profit association based in the San Francisco Bay Area that primarily helps families from South Asia opposite household violence, emotional abuse, cultural isolation and human trafficking and continues to serve on the suggested board. The novel Queen of Dreams clearly brings out the multifaceted problem of identity and rootlessness through her characters. The protagonists in Queen of Dreams have steady identity crisis and suffer from exile, isolation and humiliation largely born of cultural prejudices throughout the novel. Divakaruni is an outstanding writer. But, of course, she is not the first literary fiction writer who generously uses metaphors as prose style. Norman Mailer, a literary giant, for example, is a master storyteller who pack metaphors in his stories. Divakaruni’s use of …show more content…

This metaphorology is Divakaruni’s gift to readers, in accumulation to the story itself. This style adds further dimension to Divakaruni’s skill as an author that of a linguist using semiotics, symbolism and, to some extent, mysticism of words and phrases. She skilfully spares the readers of archaism in her style, maintaining the high level of reader commitment and interest from beginning to the end. She elevates the work of storytelling to an fine art